Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation

Summary:

The UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING PROGRAM DATA: OFFENSES KNOWN AND CLEARANCES BY ARREST, 2012 dataset is a compilation of offenses reported to law enforcement agencies in the United States. Due to the vast number of categories of crime committed in the United States, the FBI has limited the type of crimes included in this compilation to those crimes which people are most likely to report to police and those crimes which occur frequently enough to be analyzed across time. Crimes included are criminal homicide, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assaul... (more info)

The UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING PROGRAM DATA: OFFENSES KNOWN AND CLEARANCES BY ARREST, 2012 dataset is a compilation of offenses reported to law enforcement agencies in the United States. Due to the vast number of categories of crime committed in the United States, the FBI has limited the type of crimes included in this compilation to those crimes which people are most likely to report to police and those crimes which occur frequently enough to be analyzed across time. Crimes included are criminal homicide, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft.

Much information about these crimes is provided in this dataset. The number of times an offense has been reported, the number of reported offenses that have been cleared by arrests, and the number of cleared offenses which involved offenders under the age of 18 are the major items of information collected.

Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: Offenses Known and Clearances by Arrest, 2012. ICPSR35021-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-05-22. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35021.v1

Universe:
Index crimes reported by law enforcement agencies in the
United States.

Data Types:
aggregate data

Data Collection Notes:

Starting with the year 1998, each of the four types of
UCR summary data archived by ICPSR is released as a separate study under its own study number. Offenses Known and Clearances by Arrest data for the years 1975-1997 can be found in UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING PROGRAM DATA: [UNITED STATES]: 1975-1997 (ICPSR 9028).

Methodology

Time Method:
Cross-sectional

Mode of Data Collection:
self-enumerated questionnaire

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: